MADITLY STORY.

Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 2, 11 December 1943, Page 10

MADITLY STORY.

Uncle Moonshine)

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HELLO boys and girls. I am speaking to yoh all the way from New Caledonia which is far across the sea from where you ryM Now that the time has come to hang up your stocking you will be thinking of your Daddy and what you would give him for a present wore he at home* :::THIS is the first time I have scon Army Engineers and they ©re so different from what I thought they were like® When we think of Engineers we always think of railways engines, and Sig ships. But your Dad is fliff orc nt.. Let me tell you about him,Ho is oaliod a Sapper and sometimes ho drives a few engines - old ones that nobody else wants t and ho would dearly love to drive © big ship especially if it were sailing to Now Zealand, he can do many other things as well. Ho is fetid of making toys. Every now and again ho gets some old iron, bits of wire and things like that ©nd makes himself a now toy, and then your Dad and all other men gather round and admire it. One of those toys is a ship called H.M.S.. NEVTREAIL, but it sails best on i: land, They had another ship too which was called Oharloton's ?ridc, but a wicked fairy knocked a Ml® in it and it sank. Their best toy is called Abe reus. It is. the biggest toy. in New Caledonia; when it moved through the countryside all the people. bowed before it. Some nasty minded folk said that they wore doubled up with laughter; but that boys and girls is quite untrue. hiAND now let me toll you of a dreadful « no, darling old horse they have which is called "Plonk". fl overheard an officer say that no self-respecting horse thief would be seen dead with Plonk which shows what nice kind man your Dad is. They all saved up ©nd bought shoes for Honk and the cooks gave up their spare time so that they could shoe him. And'they gathered up all the pieces of breadto food the* Old fellow as , he has no teeth;they are having, a special saddle made with an uphol- • stored seat so that they may go for a ride and not have to visist the , "hospital next day. Some time ago* a jealous fairy asked your Dad to . give up Plonk, but ho didn’t want to, so the wicked fairy said that you Bad would cither have to give up Plonk or his children. Dad offered her all hie worldy goods instead, but the wicked fairy didn’t want them, so he* told your Dad where he could put them. Where do you think that was, boys and girls. You'll never guess. Writ a « ask Daddy sometime